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Saddam Is Reversing
Gulf War Defeat

Updated Jan. 20, 2000 12:01 a.m. ET

By Andrew J. Bacevich, director of the Center for International Relations at Boston University.

T he wrangling between Secretary General Kofi Annan and members of the United Nations Security Council over the appointment of someone to head the United Nations Monitoring, Verification, and Inspection Commission may yet result in the revival of some attenuated form of weapons inspections in Iraq. If it does, spokesmen for the Clinton administration will no doubt proclaim this yet another triumph of American statecraft. Doing...